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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-12
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
What 1t Does and What 1t Does Not Do
Should 1t BE Established and Protected
by LaW2

What 1t Does and What 1t Does Not Do
Should 1t BE Established and Protected
by Law?
The liquor traffic earns nothing; it
creates no value; it adds not dollar
to the national wealth, nor in any way
to the welfare and prosperity of the
country. The money obtained by the
trade is not earned as honest industries
earn mOney-by giving valuable re-
turn for it. 1t obtains money from
those who earn it by their labor, giving
in return for it what is not only of no
value, but far worse than that-some-
thing which leads to poverty, pauper-
ism, Indebtedness and crime; which
disinclines men to honest industry, and
finally units them for it.
This traffic, like war, wastes the
products of industry, and kills the
worker, OF so mutilates and mains.
him that he is untitled for work; and
then he and his family are dependents
and pensioned upon the honest indus
tries of the country. 1t i like con-
htt dUlOiii ~ NOoIlOJo, lCdFlHS OlliJ
blackened ruins of all which it attacks.
1t is like pestilence; ravaging any
community where it is tolerated, cut
ting down. the brightest, bravest and
best. 1t destroys more than sixty
thousand of our people every year, cut
ting short their lives upon an average
more than ten years each. 1t makes
wretched, beyond all power of express
sion, more than five thousand homes,
which, but for it, would be peaceful,
prosperous and happy. 1t threatens
the existence of our institutions, which
can not live except among an educated
and virtuous people, because, more
than all other influences for evil, it re-
duces men to ignorance, brutality and
savagery.
Have | overstated or misstated? Is
such a trade to be established and pro-
tected by law? or shall it be forbidden,
and by sufficient pains and penalties
suppressed as being inconsistent with
the general good?-NeoI DOl0.
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ings, and thrusts himself amongst his
friends in serene Inconsistencies, APP
parently, that his presence is an of
tense. 1t would be interesting to know
on what theory this delusion is based.
Far better would it be for himself and
Tor those forced to associate with him
II this self-deeeption were destroyed
early in his career, and that he were
taught before the knowledge came too
late that where whisky is used as q
beverage the fact can never be hidden.
1t requires no very keen perception
to detect the man who is addicted even
to an occasional glass as a necessary
stimulant." If there were no other
betrayal of the indulgence the fumes
of his breath is quite sufficient, verv
small portion of alcoholic liquor being
enough to render the partaker obnox-
ious to those of fastidious taste. As to
the ''moderate drinker," his breath is
like that of a pestilence and he is liter
ally a stencil to the nostrils. This
statement is one that he may not rel
ish; but facts are facts, and it is some
times well to put them in plain Lam
guage.
There are other signs, however,
equally impossib Lotto disguise. and the
chief among them is the absolute ina
Dility of the drinker to refrain from
making fool of himself. He may not
be so far under the influence of his
fayorite beverage as to be what is COM
monty called drunk" but under very
moderate degree of stimulation he
departs from the usual tenor of his
way to be witty or wise, and calls at
tention to himself by his dismal failure
to accomplish his aim.
In addition to the knowledge that
his presence among refined people is
not desirable for the reasons named,
the young man who ''takes a drink
when he feels like it, should be made
to understand that he is regarded not
with the liberation and maudlin pity
that once followed such "good fell
lows" but with a contempt that has
few notifications. The drinking of
whisky has ceased to be accepted as %
sign of brllliancy, but is held, rather,
to be mark of mental weakness; the
drunkard is no longer an erratic gen
Jus, but disgusting creature, even in
the early stages of his course. and the
more distinctly he realizes this truth
the better. -Il1diGnGpOtiS Journal
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HUMOROUS.

Larry, which Will be the
last language spoken on earthP" Harry
-"Well, I should say the Finnish.
Will some one bring us load OF
stove wood? We are tired of the plan
Of eating our roasting ears raw.-1eGds
Ploo0 and Hammer.
Cold Comfort" the train
started?" asked belated passenger,
as he rushed up to the station at
Bridgeport. Yes answered be-
nevolent-looking old lady, "but it will
stop at New Haven
I'll want to be an angel" sang
female voice in side room; and, there
upon, a heartless wretch in an adjoin-
ing apartment broke forth with:
Johnnie, get your gun, get your gun,
gun gun. "-Boston Transcript.
City Girl-''Are those greatstrong
cows over there yours, sir?" Farmer
Eyes, mum; and they are the
strongest in this section" City girl
''Then you must be the man that makes
that awfully strong butter, amt your"
A Russian named Skrzcypczywsijza-
wick, living in Campbell County, re-
Gently lost a blooded colt worth two
hundred dollars. He had his farm
fenced with his name and the colt
ran into it and cut his legs all to pieces
on the ''z's" and skis. '-Dabota Bell
-''My dear old friend, how were
you able to acquire such an inn
mense fortune?' "By very simple
method" ''What method is that?'
when was poor I made out that ]
was rich, and when got rich I made
out that was poor. ''-TsrGs SJtiaaqs.
The Result of Tight Lacing.-
There is young girl out at Do, Do,
And her looks they were said to Dc so, so,
But she spoilt her dear face
By her corset's tight lace
And now she can get nary beau beau.
Springfield Republican.
-"Excuse me. sir" he said. "but
you are something of reading man,
are you notp" 80, yes, sir,
often read half the night through.
Il thought so. I am seldom mistaken
in judging character You have pas
sion for literature, I supposed" "Not
exactly; I'm a proof-reader." NJ z
San.
Professor" To-day you made
another spectacle of yourself. / am
much displeased with you and wish to
remark that tomorrow / will punish
all of you severely unless you are so
quiet that mouse can be heard to run
across the foor.'' A Scholar-"If you
please, professor. shall bring mouse
with me in the morning. = Iid-BitS.
Boarding-House French. Mrs. A.
| (who is taking Frenchlessons). Now,
Bridget. when Prof. Blanque comes
you must say .Entrez' to him. and he
will know what you mean and come
into the parlor." (The bell rings and
Bridget goes to the door. 1t is the
professor). Ontario" says Bridget.
.'Wud We walk into the pairler sir?"
! (I'he professor walked in and Bridges
reported her triumph to the cook. -
Harper's Bazaar
Two friends are walking along the
street. One of them, pointing to a
house, says: There's beautiful place,
but it's enough to make a man sad to
look at it, '.Why sop ''On account
of its history; for, despite its calm and
serene surroundings, it was built upon
the groans, tears, wailings and blood
Of widows, orphans, old men and strug-
Cling women" You don't say SO.
Was it built by a railroad monopolist?'
''Oh. no; by dentist. ''-ArkansaU
| 2rayeler.
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menced to rain just as the driver drew
up at the residence Of the gentleman
who returned them. As he assisted a
lady to alight, they got down unno-
ticed, but were soon discovered by the
lady of the house and cared for till her
husband arrived and Immediately took
the culprits home.
Question after question in regard 10
baby elected only one answer: 1--WE
gave her to big girl. Suddenly there
was peal of the door-belI, and Mary,
choking and sobbing. seized Kathie
from the arms of a kind-hearted, moth
erly woman, who on her return from a
hard days work found the child with
her twelye-years-old girl, who said she
was st the door. when two little boys
appeared, saying: We'll give you the
baby They left her and ran away"
so she lust took care of her till mother
came. Poor little dear!' the woman
said; 81 knew somebody was getting
broken-hearted, and hurried out for
nm evening paper, and found outwhere
she belonged, and brought her home,
ma am, Immediately
In the midst of tears and embraces,
Alph said: Here's your 'handsniff,
mamma, taking handkerchief from
bag he had on his arm.
Where did you get thatP" asked
some one.
I'VE took it to put our pennies in;
but, papa, 'cluded to spend mine,
only some old yellow ones we found in
mammals bag" was the answer.
"Whati'' | exclaimed, remembering
that gave my wife five twenty-dollar
gold pieces that morning.
1--WE didn't eat no red candy nor
noffin', only got drink of water, cause
we were very frs ty, and course we
paid the big boy" said one"
I'VE just gave him the old yellow
cents, and kept our nice new nick
els, said the other
Thank Heaven! we are all alive,
though the ''congestive chill" that
selZed my wife, after the excitement
was partially over, was almost more
than she could survive, and for time
we feared she was crossing the ''river
of DEATH; but now she is once more
managing her household, or at least
her husband, and l hear her dear voice
calling: joint John! where are you?
it is two O'Clock. " Hnn1,ea,'S Rnznr.
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TURNING THE TABLES.
How Railway Conductor Got Even with
Too Exacting Superior

HOW Railway Conductor Got Even with
Too Exacting Superior.
Almost every one will enjoy the
manner in which conductor turned
the tables on the president of the road
in the following incident, narrated by
Newark paper. But the president,
though too much of martinez, seems
to have accepted the situation in a
manly way. There is a general inter-
change of passes among railroad men,
and the president and president
of the large railroads often have passes
all over the country:
President Roberts is very strict
man. One very stormy day in winter
he got on the New York division, and
took seat in the middle car. The
conductor knew him, as we all do; and
when he passed him, the president
simply NODDED. 1t was u catch; and
Roberts was only trying to see if his
man would break the rules, and not
make him show his pass. The con-
ductor fell into the trap. When he
passed through the train again, Rob-
erts arose from his seat and, tapping
him ON the shoulder, said: 'See here,
you have not seen my pass"
mo, sir" faltered the conductor;
''but-but know who you are.
THAT makes no difference" re-
torted Roberts, with a frown. "The
rules are made to be obeyed, and not
to be broken. The rules laid down
for your guidance say that any passen-
ger who has neither a ticket nor a
pass must pay his fare, or else you
must eject him from the train"
Il know it, replied the conductor;
''but"-
mo butts Now you may 60"
81 haven't seen your pass yet,
though" demurely remarked the
ticket-puncher, wishing to demon
strate the thoroughness of his lesson.
THAT'S right replied Roberts. APP
provingly. "Make no difference be-
tween the president of the road and
the poorest passenger.
He reached into his inside coat
pocket, and then into his vest pockets
His face grew red, and he fumbled
around his hip pockets. The con-
ductor grinned. Roberts sallow COM
plexion grew paler, and then redder.
He went through his pockets again,
butno passes.
"Humph!" exclaimed the president.
singular! just stop as you pass this
way again
The conductor stopped, and the
president dryly handed him five-dol-
lar bill, and told him to take out the
fare. He had left his book of passes
at his Office. Youths Communion.
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PROPOSAL AND ANSWER.
WISCONSIN


= II, love, your feet can walk with mine,
The way that must tread;
And II you viii not fear, though clouds
Should gather overhead;
But with brave and kindly heart
Still take me for your guide;
Iplcdge myself to you for life;
ask you for my bride.
hyon can put your hand in mine,
And say; Whate'er is done,
Whste'er is gained, whate'er is lost,
We two are always one;'
nyou can clasp my true right hand,
Through all the strife of life,
And feel that you can trust its care
Then, darling, be my wife.
Ityour heart boats responsive, love,
10 every throb Of mine,
Like some sweet melody that keeps,
Not only tune. but time,
y, Tear not then, to trust my heart,
Fear not TO be my wife;
Give me your hand, and walk with me
Through all the ways of lfe.'
Come, clasp my hand, and will take
You for my guard and guide
And IL the way be e'er so rough,
Wen climb it side by side.
And il the way be smooth and fair,
And peace and fortune bless,
Why, then, love brightens every gain,
And doubles happiness.
For my heart only beats for you
1t answers all your claim;
1t freely takes what you can give
Your love Vour hand yo1r mama
1t does not fear, but trusts in you
Through all the ways Of life;
If you can be my husband true,
! can be your true wife"
Lille 3. Barr, in ~ Y. Le1qe,
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
The Prince and Princess Of Wales
will celebrate their silver wedding next


The Prince and Princess of Wales
will celebrate their silver wedding next
year
Chauncey III. Depew has an iu-
dexed list of over 1900 after-dinner
addresses that he has delivered at one
time or another
MIR. Labouehere says he admires
the Queen above all other sovereigns
because she has such thorough and
sensible dislike to court ceremonies and
other such tinsel tomfooleries.
Jay Gould stocks his steam yacht,
the AAtalanta, with fine wines and
liquors for other people, but takes
nothing himself He is not temper
ance man on principle, but has no taste
for such beverages.
Mrs Cleveland has received from
some admirer in Mexico a eoat-of-arms
of the United States, worked on heavy
cardboard in feathers. The feathers.
most of them colored, are from many
different kinds of birds.
Throughout England, and even in
Parliament, Mr. Parnells name is usu-
ally spoken as in this country, with the
accent on the second syllable. But he
and his closest friends accent it prop
erly on the first syllable.
The Empress of China has pre-
sented six hundred stanzas of poetry OF
her own composition TO the Hanlin
College, while Prince Chu'un has
written collection of verse in which
he has described the novel objects
that he saw in his tour through China
last year.
Frank Vincent, who wrote "The
Land of the White Elephant. has just
returned from So, O00-mile journey in
South America, where he had been in
every capital and important seaport,
and explored many leagues of unknown
territory He is a quiet man, tall and
slim, with a dark brown mustache and
well-tanned face.
Shakespeare seems to have been
pretty well up in most of the slang
phrases of the present day. In Hen
ry VIII we have too thin; in king
john "come off, and 'you are too
green and fresh" in "A Winter Tale"
what? Never?" and, although he does
not exactly use the exclamation rats!
we have in Hamlet" "a rati rat!"
which is pretty near it. John Bunyan
used the phraze at is cold day" in
connection with adversely. - Boston
Courier.
Walter Scott is credited with hay.
ing been Ounce at school. The fol
lowing appears to prove the contrary:
Once boy in the same class was asked
by the dominic what part of speech
"with " was. "a noun, sir" said the
boy. "You young blockhead,'' cried
the pedagogue, "what example can
you give me of such thingP" Il
can tell you, SIR interrupted Scott;
lyon know there's verse in the Bible
which says They bound Samson with
withs. BRAKES Trauellers' Maya.
zine.
The Sultan of Johore has a Won
derful palace near Singapore. It's
wealth and beauty rival the arabian
Nights" tales splendor; and he is al
ways willing to show his marvels to
the many strangers touching at his
shore. He entertains his guests at
meals with food served in golden YES
sells. which service cost $1,000 600. The
regalia ne wears is valued at $500, 900,
sword Queen Victoria presented cost
the neat sum of $4,000, and he de.
lights to dazzle the eyes of his en-.
chanted spectators with these Won
drous visions of wealth.
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HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

do not plant fruit trees in the
vegetable garden, it needs full sun,
shine.
Court plaster is a good thing for
cuts in the teats or udder of q cow
Dairy World
Coal ashes are not fit for the dust
box until the einders have been sifted
out. A hen can not throw coal cinders
on her back. They are too heavy; be-
sides, they hurt her feet
Form cold mashed potatoes into
small mounds by pressing them into a
small-sized cup. Place on the top OF
each a bit of butter and bake until hot
all through and well Drowned.
Making the plum orchard poul-
try run will greatly diminish the num-
Der of insects which prey upon the
trees, when the farmer has bat few
trees and plenty OF young chickens.
-Scalloped Onions. Boil, and il
large cut into quarters. Put into q
shallow dish, cover with white sauce
and buttered crumbs, and bake until
the onions are brown. Boston Budget.
<In vegetable growing deep, rich
soil, now so generally condemned fol-
fruit gardens, is of the first Importance.
Soil can not be too rich or deep if we
would have good vegetables. st Louis
Republican.
Weeds IN our farming Absorb
profits that might otherwise be very
satisfactory, but they have done this
years and years, increasing meanwhile
their mastery, and yet there is no sys.
tematic effort to overcome them
Troy Times.
Soda Biscuit. One quart of sifted
flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two
teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, one tea
spoonful of salt; mix thoroughly and
rub in two tablespoonfuls of butter
and wet with one pint of sweet milk
Bake in quick oven. -Indianapolt,
Sentinel.
If the housekeeper will, wher
eggs are scarce, put away at night g
teacup of mashed potatoes in which
has been strained tablespoonful Of
sugar, and mix it in the corn cake bat
ter next morning, they will be pleased
with the lightness and sweetness Of the
cakes. Farm, Field and Stocsmaas.
French Vanilla Creams. To any
number of the whites of eggs add the
same bulk of cold water, beat in con.
fectioner's sugar until stiff enough tc
mold into shapes with wetted fingers
Flavor with vanilla. Shape as yor
please and lay on plates, with waxed
paper, if possible. = Cincinnati Times
Tea Biscuits. -Beat very light one
egg, pour it over pint of -four, add
glass of milk, and chopin one table
spoonful of lard and butter, mixed.
Work thoroughly together; break W
pieces the size of marbles, which must
be rolled as thin as your nail
Sprinkle with dry flour as you roll
them out to make them crisp; stick
with a fork and bake quickly.-Eu.
change.
In the winter the water from oul
wells seem to be warmer than thai
taken from the same place in summer
And so it is if the well is not deeper
than twenty-five feet. Biologists tel
us that heat or cold penetrates the
earth's crust very slowly, foot week
being the usual rate. Therefore, in
summer we drink water that was sci
cooling the winter before, and in win
ter the heat of the previous summer is
just getting down to the water level
Troy Times.
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TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

THE new license law in Minnesota
wiped out five hundred saloons, or
about twenty per cent.
ABOUT one-seventh of the grain
produce of Great Britain is appropri-
ated in the manufacture of strong
| drink.
TEMPERANCE people circulated hand
bills in England, during the Queens
jubilee celebration, saying: 'Remem-
Der, if you drink the Queens health
you damage your own"
WHEN the Queen of Madagascar
! shut up the saloons in her kingdom,
and the ex-saloonkeepers asked for
compensation, she replied: "Compen-
safe those you have wronged, and I
will pay the balance"
JUDGES are weary with calling at
tention to drink as the principal cause
of crime, but | can not refrain from
saying that if they could make England
sober they would shut up nine-tenths
of the prisons. Chief Justice
CoJeridge, Of England.
THE Calcutta Indian Witness says:
THAT Temperance sentiment is on the
increase in India, the following state
ment of correspondent may indicate.
A well-known professional died from
the effects of strong driI K, and the
funeral procession consisted of one per-
son."
AT recent meeting of the Middle
sex South Congregational Conference
a resolution was adopted declaring it
to be the duty of every church of Christ
not only to insist rigidly upon the
practice of total abstinence of its mem
bers, but also to make special efforts
for the suppression of intemperance in
the community at large, and do this as
part of the regular church work.
THE National Temperance Hospital
has in the eight months of its existence
treated nearly two hundred patients,
and not drop of alcohol in any form
has been used, although its use would
have been thought necessary in many
OF the severe cases treated in many
other hospitals Not one patient has
died but all that entered went out
cured. National ~ C. Z. U. Bulletin.
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Natural DepravitY.

Mrs. Peterby, of Austin, Tex, is a
kind mother and a faithful wife, but in
some respects she is not as bright as
she might be. The conversation was
about counterfeiters.
"There is one very strange thing
about these counterfeiters, said Mrs.
Peterby.
.sWhat is that?'
s.They are always arrested for
counterfeiting dollars. / have never
heard of one making good dollars.
They seem to be naturally depraved. "
-I'eras Siftings.
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RUSSIAN PRISONS.
The Terrible Rate of Mortality Prevailing
Among the Inmates of .IaiIs.

The Terrible Rate of Mortality Prevailing
Among the Inmates of Jails.
The Russian Administration of Pri-
sons has just issued its report for 1885.
On the LIST of January, 1885, there were
"a, 4S8 persons incarcerated throughout
the empire. In the course of the year
703, 254 entered and 697, 769 individuals
were liberated, leaving a residue of SO,
973 still in prison. Women formed
about 8 per cent. of the convicted. Not
withstanding a certain amelioration of
sanitary appliances in the jails, the rate
of mortality remained stationary. Of
the SO, 002 prisoners who were treated
in hospital, there died 2, 1S9 men, 246
women, $40 children. In this respect
the island of Saghalien stood in the
worst position, its sick list showing a
total of &C per cent. on the year, but
the number of deaths there are not
given. Diseases arising from humidity,
insufficient ventilation, and defective
sanitary arrangements are the chief
scourges of the state prisons. Among
the 1929 persons who passed through
the prisons of St. Petersburg 2, 675 were
accused of theft, 159 of political often
ces, one of bigamy and one of apostasy.
The largest number of offenders be-
longed to the artisan class; not one is
specified as peasant. The expenses
of the penitentiary service in the whole
empire amounted to II, 1854 rubles,
being a diminution of 521, 239 rubles
upon the expenditure of the proceed
ing year. This economy was partially
effected by reducing the cost of the
equipment of the prisoners. There was
falling off in the receipts derived from
the products of the prisoners industry
from 1873, $50 rubles in 1884 to 103, $50
rubles in 1885. Moreover the Coal
Mining Company of Saghalien, which
is supplied with convict labor, paid to
the State 81, 456 rubles for the rights
conceded to it.-London Times.
AN Austrian doctor named Rabow
says that nine times out of ten head.
ache can be almost instantly cured by
swallowing spoonful Of salt dissolved
in aquantity of water sufficient to al
low the sufferer to swallow it.-Erdak
LeSlie's Newspaper,
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Lady Gokingly)-"Tommy. when
are you going to marry?" Tommy
(eight years old and very susceptible)
-..Well, don't think I'll ever marry.
love SO many girls. if 1 married one
all the rest would be jealous. The
Epoch.